[ad_1] Today, anti-gun legislation, Senate Bill 5038, was placed on the House Calendar for Second Reading.  The measure can now be brought up for a vote at any time, and your Representative needs to hear from you immediately!  Please contact your State Representative and ask them to OPPOSE Senate Bill 5038. Senate Bill 5038 makes it a

[ad_1] Anti-gun legislators are looking to advance legislation through Committees next week that would significantly impair Oregonians’ access to firearms.  On Tuesday, the Oregon House Committee on Health Care has scheduled a Work Session and vote on Mandatory Storage legislation, House Bill 2510.  Please contact committee members and ask them to OPPOSE House Bill 2510. House Bill 2510,

[ad_1] Yesterday, despite overwhelming public opposition, the Oregon Senate passed anti-gun legislation, Senate Bill 554, by a 16 to 7 vote. Next, the bill will go to the House for further consideration.  Please contact your State Representative and ask them to OPPOSE Senate Bill 554. Senate Bill 554 will create new “gun-free zones” by handing over authority to local governments, universities, and airports

[ad_1] DATE:  March 26, 2021  TO:   USF & NRA Members and Friends   FROM: Marion P. Hammer   USF Executive Director   NRA Past President    LEGISLATORS HEARD YOUR VOICES AND PASSED HB-259 On Thursday, March 25, 2021, the full Florida House of Representatives met and heard HB-259, sponsored by Rep. Jayer Williamson & Rep. Cord

[ad_1] Next week, the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider Mandatory Storage legislation, House Bill 1106.  It is extremely important that NRA Members and Second Amendment supporters contact their lawmakers in opposition to this anti-self-defense bill. House Bill 1106 imposes government-mandated standards for storing firearms, rendering a person’s firearm useless when needed for self-defense.  This should

[ad_1] Phoenicia Ratliff, who was killed in 2020. Last year, 23-year-old Phoenicia Ratliff of Canton was kidnapped and shot by her ex-boyfriend before he turned the gun on himself. Just a week earlier, he had been arrested on domestic violence and stalking charges. Ratliff was one semester short of graduating from Jackson State University. She

[ad_1] The leaders of Google, Facebook and Twitter testified on Thursday before a House committee in their first appearances on Capitol Hill since the start of the Biden administration. As expected, sparks flew. The hearing was centered on questions of how to regulate disinformation online, although lawmakers also voiced concerns about the public-health effects of

[ad_1] Monday, March 22nd, was the deadline for bills to cross over from their chamber of origin. As such, a few anti-gun bills are essentially dead for the year. House Bill 175 would have required “ammunition vendors” to conduct federal NICS background checks on prospective recipients of ammunition. Because “ammunition vendor” was vaguely defined in

[ad_1] Here’s what you need to know: President Biden held his first news conference in the East Room of the White House on Thursday.Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times President Biden said on Thursday that Republican efforts to limit voting rights were “sick” and “un-American,” vowing to prevent states from taking what he called “despicable” actions

[ad_1] Here’s what you need to know: Video In his first formal news conference as president on Thursday, President Biden condemned Republican efforts to restrict voting rights and said the filibuster was being “abused in a gigantic way.”CreditCredit…Doug Mills/The New York Times President Biden on Thursday called efforts to limit voting rights “sick” and “un-American,”

[ad_1] House Bill 2840 will be eligible for Senate floor action as soon as next week. Please contact your state senator and ask them to SUPPORT HB 2840. House Bill 2840 allows law-abiding citizens to store their loaded firearms in their locked personal vehicles while parked on school grounds. This ensures that parents are able to

[ad_1] The NRA-ILA released a statement Wednesday urging the Alabama House of Representatives to lower the fee on the sale of lifetime concealed carry permits from $500 to $200. The National Rifle Association Institute for Legislation Action supports House Bill 477 creating the lifetime concealed carry permits, but opposes the raising of the fee from

[ad_1] Earlier this week, the Legislature passed two pro-gun bills and will soon be sending them to Governor Kim Reynolds for her signature. Please contact Gov. Reynolds and ask her to sign House File 621 and House File 756. House File 621 protects firearm dealers, manufacturers, distributors, etc., from frivolous lawsuits for the criminal or

[ad_1] On Monday, the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee will consider gun safety legislation, Substitute House Bill 2089.  Please click the “Take Action” button below to voice your support to this important firearm safety legislation. Substitute House Bill 2089 directs the state Board of Education to establish grade-appropriate curricula guidelines to teach firearm safety to K-12

[ad_1] Yesterday, Governor Laura Kelly signed Emergency Powers Legislation, Senate Bill 40, into law.  Having passed the legislature with strong bipartisan support, the measure goes into effect immediately.  Thank you to NRA Members and Second Amendment supporters who contacted their lawmakers in support of this important legislation. Senate Bill 40 provides protections for gun stores, ranges,

[ad_1] The Joint Committee on Government Administration and Elections is scheduled to consider legislation that would impose a gun free zone on all polling locations in Connecticut.  Senate Bill 5 is scheduled to be considered tomorrow, and committee members need to hear from you! Senate Bill 5 creates a new, state level prohibition by prohibiting possession of a

[ad_1] The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that state governments can restrict people from openly carrying guns in public, effectively ending a person’s right to bear arms outside of their home. The court issued an en banc opinion in the case of Young vs. Hawaii over a lawsuit by a Hawaiian resident who

[ad_1] While President Biden considers a gamut of executive and legislative actions on gun control in the wake of two mass shootings, the federal agency tasked with enforcing existing gun laws remains without a permanent leader and hobbled by restrictions on its enforcement power. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or A.T.F., has

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[ad_1] Originally published on August 3, 2012at: https://duluthreader.com/articles/2012/08/03/100731-what-were-the-brain-altering-psych-drugs-that-the The most recent episode in the peculiarly American epidemic of mass shootings happened yesterday, March 22, 2021, in Boulder, Colorado. Everybody knows the bare details as broadcast on the mainstream media and most people are expecting the seemingly inevitable – and illogical – revenge/retaliations against Middle Eastern

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — With Congress unlikely to move quickly on gun legislation, the White House is pressing ahead with plans for a series of executive orders that President Biden expects to roll out in the coming weeks as a way of keeping up pressure on the issue. A day after Mr. Biden called on the

[ad_1] This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it Tuesdays and Thursdays. On an average day in the United States, more than 100 people are killed by guns. Whenever the fact of this ambient crisis rises back to the surface of national consciousness, as it has this

[ad_1] The Senate Judiciary has approved anti-self-defense legislation, Senate Bill 554.  The measure now heads to the Senate floor for a full chamber vote.  The measure is expected to receive a vote as early as tomorrow, and your State Senator needs to hear from you now! Senate Bill 554 will create new “gun-free zones” by giving authority

[ad_1] This past week and weekend, Governor Kristi Noem signed multiple pro-gun and self-defense bills into law.  These important measures work to further strengthen and protect the Second Amendment right to self-defense in the Mount Rushmore State.  Those measures enacted are outlined below: Senate Bill 100 provides protections for gun stores, ranges, or any other entity that engages in

[ad_1] Yesterday, committees in both chambers of the West Virginia Legislature voted to advance the pro-gun bills before them. Senate Bill 458 protects Second Amendment rights during emergencies, and House Bill 2793 establishes a nonresident carry permit. These bills now go to the floors of their respective chambers for further consideration. Please click the “Take

[ad_1] House Bill 1369 is still sitting in the Senate Judiciary Committee without a hearing scheduled. Please contact your state senator and ask that they insist the committee schedule and supports HB 1369. House Bill 1369 allows any law-abiding adult who is legally eligible to obtain a carry permit, to carry a handgun without first

[ad_1] So, at that hearing on Tuesday, we heard familiar things. We heard politicians saying things that they were expected to say and that they’d said before. It’s a ritual so deeply familiar that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) could disparage it as “ridiculous theater” — implying that his side’s response was valid and his opponent’s

[ad_1] (Eliza Earle | The New York Times) Safety officials help people outside of the Boulder King Soopers grocery store after a shooting that killed multiple people in Boulder, Colo., on Monday, March 22, 2021.   | March 24, 2021, 12:08 p.m. A pair of violent rampages in less than a week — first, the mass

[ad_1] Draft bills are currently being circulated to restrict magazine capacities and require a license to obtain handguns. In addition, last week, House Bill 124 was introduced, to strip Second Amendment rights without due process. House Bill 124 goes beyond federal law to strip individuals of their Second Amendment rights without due process. Among other

[ad_1] Although Schumer has promised a vote on House-passed background checks legislation, it’s not even clear if Senate Democrats will get their entire caucus on board: West Virginia’s Joe Manchin, the most conservative member in the caucus, said Tuesday he opposes it. Manchin worked with Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) on legislation to expand background checks